skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the difference is that if you go to a funeral home in the US and say "I'd like one burial, plain, no sugar" you will end up dressed in fancy clothes, filled with formaldehyde and a decent amount of sawdust, lying on soft polyester cushions and frills in a fancy varnished hardwood box with a lacquer finish and nearly airtight seal. This goes into the ground and then (I'm less to believe) largely doesn't change for decades.

Whereas if you go to a human composting place and ask to be composted, you get packed into a tube with enough wood chips and straw to create the right carbon to nitrogen ratio and a few scoops of microbes and fungi and held at an optimum temperature and oxygen content until you turn into soil. Then you get delivered in the back of a pickup truck and hopefully someone uses you to plant a tree or something.

Not to say that burial is always mutually exclusive with returning your nutrients to the earth - just that the default approach to burial these days isn't so good at it.
All my ideas would require both more time and more money, plus business skill and a desire to do any kind of business on my own....

One thing I'd love to work on is more modular home automation. The "smart" part does not need to be the same as the actual appliance or bulb or lamp.

Everything has a computer in it now, which makes things hard to repair, but really it should be way easier to repair than ever before, if only things used more standard modules.

There are modular electronics systems, but none of them are really meant for consumer or industry use.

For some reason, even switching 12v on and off is still not a solved problem.

At best you get an IoT relay module, which uses an old school mechanical relay with zero protection or diagnostics onboard.

Nobody makes a cheap board with an ESP32 and a few current protected, PWM capable barrel jack outputs, with current sensing and voltage monitoring, flashed with ESPHome.
Maybe by the manufacturers, but I doubt it; see Musk's pivot to conservative pantomime since acquiring Twitter.

And Ed Markey is not exactly a conservative politician.
I can’t imagine how you could build such a study and believe it.

In other words, I wouldn’t believe the other 20%…
> Plus, say a nuclear weapon went off anyways and all the FM transmitters died. Is anyone seriously thinking a lone AM transmitter 2000 miles away is going to help? We had all the communication in the world during COVID and that did nothing to stop people from acting foolish.

This is an interesting assertion. Many, many people acted responsibly during the pandemic, and in a worst case scenario such as what you described, it's even more likely that a sizable population will gravitate to any source of reliable information.

The government is usually the source of last resort for many, many things. Whether it's as a lender (e.g bailouts) or as a source of information (emergency broadcasts), it's at the scope of the nation state where extreme contingencies exist and must be accounted for. I imagine AM radio is perfect for this precisely for worst-cases, e.g where someone might seek to make a crystal radio, but I'd be out of my depth thinking beyond this.

I actually was neutral on this until I read your comment and thought it through far enough to reply, so thanks for that.
They weren't suggesting renewables are made of magic carbon-free fairy dust. Rather that their energy source is inexhaustible (relative to fossil fuels anyway).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501501890

Parted When Getting Old

No quiet or calm in the land all around, those getting old can find no peace.

Children and grandchildren have all died in the ranks why
should I survive alone? I throw down my cane and go out the gate, those who go with me feel bitter pain for me.

Fortunately I have some teeth remaining, that my frame shrunken and dry is what grieves me.

When a man puts on the armor and helm, he gives a deep bow, leaving the chief magistrate. My old wife lies weeping on the road, her clothes too thin for the end of the year. I know well that this is parting for good, yet I still feel pained at how poor she will be.

Once I go, I will surely never return, yet I still hear her urging me to eat well.

Earth-gate Barrier's walls are quite strong, it will be hard for them to cross at Apricot Garden. The situation is different than it was by Ye, so even though I will die, the time may be delayed.
Windows Me came out after Windows 2000 so it still works!

(but then the timeline breaks at Windows 98SE again... the DOS/9x->NT transition will always be a rift since there were OSes that coexisted)
West New Zealand isn't neccessarily better, that aside Sydney is hardly the be all to end all highlight.
The small businesses I know have learned from bitter experience never ever to leave money in Paypal because it will seize it when it feels like and give it back whenever if ever. That does not sound like a business that relies on people leaving money in their account earning 0% for the depositor and a few percent / year for PayPal (large retailers run the same scam, where they always pay for goods 89 days after receipt and keep the money earning interest in the meantime).
the arch is almost 2500 years old now, and although you do normally use timber beams (or bamboo) to build one, they aren't part of the final structure

vaults, domes, and flying buttresses extend the arch principle to enclose large spaces. there are domes still standing made from unreinforced concrete that are 2000 years old
Yeah but low carb is sustainable. High carb diets are a misuse of human biology.
AMD had pretty much always been competitive in HPC, AI not so much because of software.
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in May 2024
Shouldn't you factor in the size of the compression tools needed?
That's my whole question, do they do random audits, or is it the job of customers to double-check their results for possible attack or compute-theft and report.
*Taupō

> Christchurch: Had their big one [...] Entire suburbs got abandoned

This bit is true, but it's a small proportion of the city. You can see the streets, driveways, and trees, but the buildings are gone: https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.5099561,172.6785597,3994m/d..., https://www.google.com/maps/@-43.5085311,172.6809741,403m/da...
The multiplier effect is well known and understood. Nit sure why you're arguing against it.
The USA became the richest country despite many people having been made wealthy via corruption, and despite the establishment of a nearly all-powerful oligarchy.
URL to the text is basically compression.
From a business perspective, I agree that it’s a fool’s errand. But imagine being able to design and tangibly build your own computer, at home. 6400 euros is pennies for a business, but exorbitant for an individual.

I believe the way Sam Zeloof circumvents the enormous amount of capital needed for a chip fab by relying on modern technology to create 1970’s technology. He simply mounts a cheap digital projector onto a cheap microscope - they didn’t have that advantage in the 70s, and thus it cost millions to start a chip fab. My point is that it could conceivably be doable for an individual to create old computing technology with the advantages of living in the modern world. I certainly don’t have the drive to do it, but I wish someone did.
Water. On its own. It's what I drink
Will it give a 100% guarantee that there are no backdoors in your device? Yes.

This yes can be priceless in some circumstances.
My friend professional musician says that it's a common myth that muse comes to artists randomly.

He says the best inspiration comes from invoices, and deadlines definitely help.
Why does it seem like the CDC is missing from the picture? They were late to the party on COVID, and they seem to be disinterested in bird flu. Do we need a pandemic response agency?
No. Poverty is the default no matter what. From there, there are really only two methods of human interaction. The economic or the political. The economic means are voluntary and the political means are force. So far, all attempts at creating a third means either result in tyranny or in societal collapse.
Not noticed slow loading myself. Still snappy as always
You can smell those things when they pass you. IMO it should be mandated that the engine be switched out for a modern one.
Just launched but will put a panel on the landing page for that, once the data comes in.
So, is Intel buying ASML EUV machines for their build out in Arizona?

It seems like Intel is skipping ASML EUV entirely.

If that's the case, I'm trying to understand how Intel ever gets decent yields at 7nm to 5nm.

It's definitely not coming from High-NA, which seems like a short-term distraction.
I'm a provider, I'd like to list my service. How do I do that? Since there is nothing obvious, then how do you know the providers they list are a valid representation of what is out there? Maybe there are other providers who don't want to pay to be listed? But how do you even pay?
Or it is possible that dietary habits are taken up from your cultural environment

I see that, but I have not made a study
I was excited to see their offering, but unfortunately they don't take fiat - only some specific cryptos.
Oddly enough, from 7 days ago:

What is human composting and should it be legalised? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-27/calls-to-legalise-hum...

mos_basik mostly has it aside from bone grinding at some point, human skulls turning over in the market garden can be disconcerting and a nuisance for law enforcement so it's considered polite to remove and|or grind them.
Caltrops.
https://github.com/TIGER-AI-Lab/LongICLBench

is 1 month old, might as well be an eon in this space. There are other benchmarks coming out.

https://evalplus.github.io/repoqa.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40261442

There was also a post on HN that I can't find right now claiming to have solved the reliability problem in long context using a demo of a disney privacy policy page, deleting some and rearranging all document references perfectly after finding the needle in the haystack
So this is 8x faster for serving these models than before? Or is this about it being more deterministic? I can't quite tell from reading it.
I'm a utilitarian, libertarian sort of guy.

The article mentions "harmful development."

Lots of things are harmful. People living in mud-homes without piped clean water, toilets, electricity, or doors and windows... is also harmful. I grew up (in better circumstances) seeing this around me in my native India... and I think it's not right to deny the poor these things.

Where is the consideration that this development may have been necessary to lift a certain number of people out of a very poor standard of living?
It might be a low hanging fruit problem, but just look to all the great ideas that took the tireless efforts of tens of thousands of people to bring to life. Few modern marvels are the product of an solitary, idle daydreamer.

To connect with modern dialogue, we’re talking about the “idea guy”.
According to Politico [0], he is the son of Al Gore, the former Vice President.

[0] https://www.politico.com/newsletters/the-long-game/2023/01/1...
Assuming it works the way you are describing, that rapid change is what we need right now. People are claiming this year isn't much hotter than last year and drag their feet. But it is much hotter than a decade ago for sure. If we go from 80F summers to 100F then people can't deny the problem. But if we go from 95F to 100F, some guys will say just crank up that AC and don't be a wuss or something.
Hello, I'm currently in the market for an on-demand GPU host so this is perfect timing. What kind of privacy can I expect from this service?
> Well, that could certainly give the prospective employers plenty of information about the way you behave.

How? Do you think he was wrong about them checking?

> I wonder how many lies the coach told you about themselves and their qualifications, on the belief that you'd never check on their story.

None; he was randomly assigned to me by the platform.
There is no way a 4km flight for 10 euro is profitable. Which operators are doing this?
> As a side issue here I can't believe sniffing is still the default

It isn't the default in modern browsers, or at least not in the sense you mean. The header still controls some things, but even without it, browsers will not sniff something served as content type image/png as html or anything like that. How modern browsers interpret that is different than IE.
If no one tells you your secrets but they all know them, do you have privacy?
I don't have the arxiv link bookmarked, but there was a paper written on pretraining with Lora. It involved merging adapters back every n steps with good results.
Isn’t this why there are student loans or do they not cover post graduate work like this?
Presumably they aren't tied up with school obligations after they finish their degrees, and they have time to take an adult job. But for many of us, the time between graduation and that first paycheck can be pretty hairy.
The Guide to Git I Never Had
Climbing this hill is the only way you’ll discover the far more tantalizing peak, hidden in the clouds above it.
Someone get this into koboldcpp
Elegant Wind Turbine Blades Made of Wood Can Outperform Composites
Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What If It Fixes Everything?
Cartel Activity As A Service
Did you mean this ironically, cuz uh… it’s been tried many times and often led to death on very large scales.
And the children's series, which made its way to the United States during Nickelodeon's bundle series, The Third Eye.
The article talks about a couple of substitutes. The "lab grown" coffee likely has the same problems as lab grown meat - it's unlikely to ever be cost competitive due to the economics of cell culturing. This is a well researched article[0] about why that's the case.

The other stuff, Atomo, is honestly more troubling. It's a hodgepodge of random seeds and plant products processed to look like coffee grounds. You can see the list of ingredients on their site[1] and while there's nothing that's immediately objectionable (except for fructose - what the fuck is that doing in there? roasted coffee has virtually no fructose), it just seems gross and definitely not coffee. The writer claims they couldn't taste the difference in a milk-based drink and I don't doubt them, but it's just not coffee. Coffee is processed fairly heavily (though less so many other common foods like pasta or jarred tomato sauce or something), but this is clearly an engineered product. It shouldn't be able to be called coffee and I am dreading the day when coffee shops swap this out as the default option and there's an upcharge for coffee made from beans. I'm also not excited about the inevitable parade of articles planted in various media outlets snarkily alleging we're all planet killers for drinking environmentally destructive "bean coffee" likely planted by this firm's tradegroup as submarine marketing [2].

Mr. Kleitsch (or any other employees of Atomo, or anyone else in the industry cooking up this crap), your product is not coffee, there is no such thing as "Beanless Coffee" (including chicory or other substandard substitutes) and your attempting at marketing are misdirected. Consider clearly acknowledging that your coffee is a coffee substitute instead of trying to make the one small, cheap thing that makes daily life bearable for billions of people worse.

[0] https://thecounter.org/lab-grown-cultivated-meat-cost-at-sca...
[1] https://www.atomocoffee.com/pages/beanless-coffee
[2] https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
OpenAI plays Hide and Seek and breaks the game [video]
Exactly, that's the idea
You’re talking out of your ass about type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetics stop producing insulin entirely and are 100% dependent on exogenous insulin. My 12 year old son is a type 1 diabetic. He plays ice hockey, and his blood sugar will have a tendency to spike during games without having eaten anything for hours prior simply due to emotions/Adrenalin, whereas at practice he’s more likely to experience low blood sugars.

Edit: Since I can't reply to another one of your posts below, I'm going to respond here. There's a "honeymoon period" after the initial symptoms of type 1 appear that yes you will still produce some insulin, for most patients it's about a year, but after that, no insulin is produced.

Zero-carb isn't a realistic long term solution. My son was diagnosed at 18 months of age. Feeding him nothing but bacon, steak and chicken is not particularly good idea for a toddler or growing child.
Are you sure the other person didn’t stalk you on fb?
I'm sorry for your daughter's condition, but I think you are misinformed about type 1 diabetes. Most patients still product some endogenous insulin, it's just usually not enough. Like any chronic condition, it's a spectrum and there are outliers at both ends. I've learned to be very cautious about using words like "always" or "never" because of the odd cases that occasionally come up.

https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00125-013-3067-x

Diet and exercise are very effective at treating type 1 diabetes, just usually not sufficient. With a minimal or zero carb diet plus the right exercise regime, some patients find that they can go much longer between insulin doses while still maintaining good blood glucose control. In particular, I think a lot of people don't appreciate the necessity of doing resistance training to build enough skeletal muscle mass as a glucose sink.

https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2017-3349
Yes, it was one node serving 8 lines (modems) connected by 8 port "Hydra" ISA board with 16850 FIFO UARTs. Binkley/2 could automatically distinguish between unattended mailer call or user call and spawned Maximus if user was there. My BBS was quite heavly loaded, all eight lines were busy quite often.

One of the coolest thing about OS/2 2.x is that it was truely multitasking (pre-emtive multitasking), which allowed me to do some work on this same box in PM while it was serving users in background. :-)
Switching from Google to someone else is extremely easy (I've done it, I don't use Google search). If Google didn't have the best index, we'd see more people doing that. We might even see people recommending others to change their default search engine to something else to get better results.

That isn't what we're seeing. We're seeing people use Google because the results are better.
They literally have a bird-flu task force. They're doing everything you would expect and want them to do.

I have a friend who was on the task force and quit because the White House kept calling them in on weekends to discuss news like this, even though it wasn't an emergency. This was 2-3 years ago.

Also from the article:

> Russo says she is heartened that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has “really started to mobilize and do the right thing,” including linking with state and local health departments, as well as vets, to monitor the health of workers on affected farms.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2023-2024/avian-...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/what-cdc-doing-h5n1.htm
Red Lobster has cheapened out its products all over the place. Pennywise, dollar stupid.
- Got rid of Thousand Islands and Raspberry vinaigrette dressing
- Got rid of the lobster and the fake lobster from the "lobster" bisque
- You only get 1 bread per person now
- Sweet chilli shrimp that used to be battered and fried at the restaurant replaced with some no name brand microwavable chilli scrimp
- To save money, they purchase the runt of the crab and lobster, the ones that barely make legal length, that no one wants to buy
- Mushroom caps mushrooms are now bottom of the barrel white mushrooms

This "restaurant" is now pure garbage.. used to go all the time, but quit going about a year ago. I'm not interested in spending 100$ per person for fast food
You put it much more diplomatically than I did in my response (my son has T1D)
> But the overhead would have to come down dramatically for it to ever beat simply doing the compute in-house and incurring the overhead of managing a physical rack.

Out of sheer curiosity, by which metric deploying the pre-packaged code (which takes seconds) into the cloud incurs a higher overhead compared to maintaining an in-house physical rack?
It's against HN guidelines to editorialize titles. The real title of the article is: "U.S. government in hot seat for response to growing cow flu outbreak"
YC partners might have an opinion and might offer advice but they're always going to support what the founders want to do—that's kind of the core principle of YC.

As for "other company in portfolio", that's unavoidable when funding thousands of startups and almost always turns out to be a non-issue.
Adobe Project Neo
Dude, go to TIOBE, stackoverflow survey, Google Trends or basically any ranking/metric that compares programming language popularity and user base, and without any question php is getting less and less usage over the last few years, often even ignored. Fewer and fewer job postings mention PHP at all. These are my first hand observations, if you don't believe it, you are welcome to look it up right now.
exactly. we're at turn #4 currently
really the main dealbreaker is HF at home, the rest of chipmaking really isn't that complicated on the process level for a crude design.
Google Fit dev APIs shutdown set, fate of Android, Wear OS apps go unannounced
Thank you for this, I was thinking something similar and I'm not even a lawyer!
That said, I have been a competitor[1] to Google in the past.

What is missed here in the comment and in the article is that the "monopoly" part is really advertising, NOT search. If the Judge ordered Google to open up their SERPs[2] to other Advertising networks that would change things for the better.

The reasoning goes as follows; In order to be cost effective, search advertising needs a lot of views. More traffic equals more views. We measured income as "RPM" or revenue per thousand (SERPs in this case), so if you're nominal advertising rate was $1 per click, and in a thousand views of 10 links each (10,000 links shown) you got one click, you would have an RPM of $1. What isn't as well known is that some advertisements, like credit card sign ups, would pay $100 for a click & signup. That meant you could go 100,000 queries with just one click and still be making $1 RPM :-).

Anyway, the reason Google pays $23 billion to Apple to have them send them search traffic is that Apple iPhone users are "high end" and will buy stuff after searching for them. One of the reason's Blekko was lucky to get 10M searches per day was because Google was spending billions to have any search traffic sent to them instead.

So if you tell Google they have to allow other people to sell ads using their search results, and they have to provide those results at a reasonable an non-discriminatory price, then it breaks Google's monopoly on search ads. Most people who have a search frontend use Bing's results because they are cheaper and available through the old Yahoo! BOSS api. But if Google offered their results sans Google ad insertions instead. You could make a search website that had Google non-spammy results for cost. People would pay for that, especially people who don't use search to shop but use it to find things. Google's long tail crawl is still better than Bings in that regard.

[1] VP Eng/Ops at Blekko a search competitor.

[2] Search Engine Result Page (SERP) is the 10 links and 10 snippets describing the page they point to.
It turns out, Google didn't actually cut a significant number of staff working on it:

> No change in team size; some DevOps roles moving to new locations.

From the Product Manager of Flutter and Dart.

https://twitter.com/MiSvTh/status/1785767966815985893